Pandora’s Box

Aerosmith’s 53-track retrospective on Columbia spans four decades of arena rock excess, from the bluesy riff-heavy hard rock of the 1970s through the stadium-filling power ballads and hair metal bombast of the 1980s. This box set captures the Boston legends at their most commercially dominant, when they’d become synonymous with anthemic heavy metal and unapologetic arena rock spectacle. Essential for anyone tracing the lineage from blues-based hard rock to the glossy production values that defined the era.